MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Motion for mistrial denied in Nxivm founder’s sex-trafficking case

Holy shit!

Something went our way!

https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/motion-for-mistrial-denied-in-nxivm-founders-sex-trafficking-case/

Notable: CME IMPACT POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND

CME IMPACT POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND: A faint CME that left the sun on May 7th could strike Earth's magnetic field on May 10th or 11th, according to NOAA analysts. The plasma cloud was hurled into space by an explosion in the magnetic canopy of big sunspot AR2740. If the CME does strike, it will likely be a glancing blow sparking only minor geomagnetic storms. Instant Aurora Alerts: SMS Text.

http://spaceweather.com/

Notable: Christopher Steele Made Damning Pre-FISA Confession; FBI Retroactively Classified

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-08/christopher-steele-made-damning-pre-fisa-confession-fbi-retroactively-classified

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP 4: Democrats are not interested in the truth, they just want to keep the Hoax going forever. The games need to stop.

New DJT Jr.

The games need to stop

Democrats are not interested in the truth, they just want to keep the Hoax going forever. The games need to stop.

https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/1126145653610991618?s=21

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP 3: GREAT NEWS FOR OHIO! Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, who informed me that, subject to a UAW agreement etc…

New DJT’s

GREAT NEWS FOR OHIO! Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, who informed me that, subject to a UAW agreement etc., GM will be selling their beautiful Lordstown Plant to Workhorse, where they plan to build Electric Trucks. GM will also be spending $700,000,000 in Ohio…

….in 3 separate locations, creating another 450 jobs. I have been working nicely with GM to get this done. Thank you to Mary B, your GREAT Governor, and Senator Rob Portman. With all the car companies coming back, and much more, THE USA IS BOOMING!

BOOM

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126144398180388864?s=20

Notable: >>6445821 anons query: did Q post icognito Baker callout?

>>6445337

gr8

check out what anon found last night watching KK

>>6443736 (pb)

Bake Someone Happy

Notable: GM, union reach deal to rescue part of Ontario plant

GM, union reach deal to rescue part of Ontario plant: source

(Reuters) - General Motors and the largest union representing Canada’s auto workers have reached a deal to partly rescue an auto plant in Ontario slated to close this year by converting it to a parts-stamping facility, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The plan would help save some union jobs at GM’s Oshawa car-making plant, even though the operations would be scaled down and it will no longer produce cars, the source added.

“Oshawa stays open,” said the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It’s a small foot in the door, but it stays open.”

A spokesman for GM declined to comment before an 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) press conference at which the company and the union are expected to make an announcement about the plant. A Unifor spokeswoman also declined comment before the press conference.

GM, which has been increasing its footprint in connected-car development in Canada, will also make an announcement on advanced automotive technologies, the source said.

CBC cited a brochure given to members of Unifor that outlined the plans for employees of the GM plant in Oshawa. In November, GM announced plans to close the plant by the end of 2019, affecting almost 2,600 workers.

Unifor said the closure was contrary to a contract that stipulates there would be no plant closures prior to Sept. 21, 2020.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-restructuring-canada-unions/gm-union-reach-deal-to-rescue-part-of-ontario-plant-source-idUSKCN1SE20J

Notable: Pelosi threatens to throw Mnuchin in ‘little jail in basement of Capitol’ over Trump tax returns

www.theamericanmirror.com/pelosi-threatens-to-throw-mnuchin-in-little-jail-in-basement-of-capitol/

Notable: Rep. Ilhan Omar Supports Group That Produced Child Beheading Skit

Rep. Ilhan Omar Supports Group That Produced Child Beheading Skit

Why has Omar openly supported an organization with a long reported record of supporting terrorism and violence, as exhibited most recently by a shocking children’s pageant in Philadelphia last month?

Shocking footage uncovered by the Investigative Project last week shows a skit produced by the Muslim American Society (MAS) in Philadelphia showing children calling for martyrdom as soldiers in the “army of Allah” and threatening to behead their enemies and subject them to “eternal torture” to wrest Jerusalem from Jewish control.

The horrific MAS-Philly children’s skit was posted to their Facebook page and shows a choreographed production as part of the group’s April 17th “Ummah Day” pageant dedicated to supporting jihad to control Palestine. A MAS statement on Friday said the songs and poems the children recited exhorting violence and terrorism were an “unintended mistake” and attributed the incident to a vetting error.

MAS has 42 chapters across the United States. A 1997 FBI file obtained by Judicial Watch identifies MAS as the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States controlled by Hamas sympathizers “known to conduct firearms and other military type training.” A Justice Department filing (p. 58, fn. 13) in a terrorism-related case states that “MAS was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” A September 2004 Chicago Tribune investigative report revealed that MAS had been founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, adopted the group’s strict code for secrecy, and promoted Islamic supremacy.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/07/rep-ilhan-omar-supports-group-that-produced-child-beheading-skit/

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP 2: “This British Spy, Christopher Steele, tried so hard to get this (the Fake Dossier) out before the Election. Why?”

New DJT

“This British Spy, Christopher Steele, tried so hard to get this (the Fake Dossier) out before the Election. Why?”

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1126135275502088192?s=21

Notable: President Trump has asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report and the underlying evidence

This…is…HUUUUUUGE!!!!!

May 08, 2019 - 10:20 AM EDT

(((▪︎Trump exerts executive privilege over Mueller report▪︎)))

President Trump has asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report and the underlying evidence, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd notified the House Judiciary Committee of the development in a letter Wednesday morning, as the committee was poised to vote on a contempt citation against Attorney General William Barr for failing to turn over the unredacted report and underlying materials, which the panel had demanded via subpoena.

Developing story.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442674-trump-exerts-executive-privilege-over-mueller-report

Notable: >>6445128 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Downing street for a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May

POMPEO HAS ARRIVED AT DOWNING STREET!!!

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP 3: Big Court win at our Southern Border! We are getting there - and Wall is being built!

Big Court win at our Southern Border! We are getting there - and Wall is being built!

CST

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126120216856076289

Notable: Mark Meadows twat w/CAP: Bill Barr published the Mueller report online and followed the law on redactions…Dems STILL want to hold him in contempt.

Bill Barr published the Mueller report online and followed the law on redactions—even working with the special counsel on the process. And yet Democrats STILL want to hold him in contempt.

Folks. This is not serious. It is the height of political desperation on full display.

CST

https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1126117241009975296

Notable: Arizona Senate Procalims Porn a Public Health Crisis

Arizona Senate Procalims Porn a Public Health Crisis

https://www.theepochtimes.com/arizona-senate-passes-bill-proclaiming-porn-a-public-health-crisis_2911362.html

Notable: USACOE twat w/CAP: 'Annual Wear your Life Jacket to Work Day is May 17th'

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tweets:

“Annual Wear your Life Jacket to Work Day is May 17th”

Interesting date May 17th.

Notable: Dead man elected mayor of Texas city

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Notable: Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway has been buying shares of Amazon

>>6444738

His forms show no purchases in that time frame or recently. He was just jawboning it up for his friends. He is a crony capitalist of the highest magnitude.

at it again:

Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway has been buying shares of Amazon

Berkshire Hathaway has been buying shares of Amazon. But Warren Buffett isn’t the one behind the purchases.

“One of the fellows in the office that manage money … bought some Amazon so it will show up in the 13F” later this month, Buffett told CNBC Thursday, on the eve of the kick off of Berkshire’s annual shareholders meeting in Omaha. Buffett was referring to either Todd Combs or Ted Weschler, who each manage portfolios of more than $13 billion in equities for Berkshire.

Buffett has long been a fan of both Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos, praising the company’s dominance and the founder’s business prowess. But while Buffett has sung the company’s praises, he’s never bought Amazon shares. So a headline that Berkshire was buying shares likely would spark interest in the markets.

“Yeah, I’ve been a fan, and I’ve been an idiot for not buying” Amazon shares, Buffett said. “But I want you to know it’s no personality changes taking place.”

More: Warren Buffett commits $10 billion in Occidental Petroleum for Anadarko takeover

This isn’t the first time Buffett has lamented about underestimating Bezos and not investing in Amazon years ago.

The Berkshire chairman and CEO told CNBC in 2018: “It’s far surpassed anything I would have dreamt could have been done. Because if I really felt it could have been done, I should have bought it,” adding, “I had no idea that it had the potential. I blew it.”

In 2017, Buffett told CNBC that “stupidity” was to blame for his not seeing Amazon’s potential. “I was impressed by Jeff Bezos early, I never thought he’d pull off what he did, on the scale of what’s happened. It’s changed your behavior, everybody’s behaviors. The remarkable thing is he’s done it in two industries at same time that really don’t have that much connection.” Buffett was referring to Amazon’s dominance in e-commerce and its success in the cloud with Amazon Web Services.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2019/05/03/berkshire-hathaway-buying-amazon-shares-says-warren-buffett/3660715002/

Notable: salacious details are emerging at the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Keith Raniere, the leader of the cult-like NXIVM group

https://www.newser.com/story/274890/prosecutor-nxivm-head-had-sex-with-teen-virgin-camilla.html

Prosecutor: NXIVM Head Had Sex With Teen 'Virgin Camilla'

The inevitable salacious details are emerging at the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Keith Raniere, the leader of the cult-like NXIVM group, and those details started flowing in a Brooklyn courtroom Tuesday via "Sylvie." The New York Times details testimony of the 32-year-old UK woman, who says she was lured into NXIVM for supposed "self-help" purposes and stuck around for 13 years, becoming a "slave" to the woman who recruited her, Monica Duran. Sylvie says she had to give "collateral" to Duran in the form of nude pictures and other materials. "Now I was Monica's slave and she was my master and the collateral was in place to keep that going," Sylvie told the court. Assistant US Attorney Tanya Hajjar also weighed in, calling Raniere, 58, a "predator" who "sold himself as the smartest, most ethical person in the world" and "compared himself to Einstein and to Gandhi," per Reuters.

Hajjar told jurors about a young teen Raniere nicknamed "Virgin Camilla," whom Raniere brought from Mexico to New York along with her two sisters in 2005 to "mentor," per the New York Post. Instead, Hajjar said, he started having sex with them, including Camilla starting when she was 15, which could spur statutory rape charges. "This was organized crime, and Keith Raniere was the crime boss in the community," Hajjar tells the Times. But defense attorney Marc Agnifilo insisted that even if Raniere was tough or demanding, the group's members joined of their own free will. "This is something these people signed up for," Agnifilo said. "Control can be very bad. Control can also make Marines. Control can make gold medal winners." Raniere, who has pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges, including sex trafficking, racketeering, extortion, and forced labor, could face life in prison if convicted.

Notable: Police arrest 40 men and women in latest probe into sex offences in Rotherham

Police have arrested 38 men and two women in the latest probe into historic sex offences in Rotherham.

They have been quizzed over the alleged sexual assault and exploitation of 13 victims, who were aged between 11 and 26 at the time of reported offences between 1997 and 2015.

The suspects are under investigation by the National Crime Agency as part of Operation Stovewood, which is looking into child sexual exploitation and abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.

The NCA said the suspects are aged between 29 and 53 and from Sheffield, Rotherham, Leeds, Dewsbury and Maidstone.

They have been arrested or interviewed by appointment over the last two months.

All have been released under investigation or bailed while enquiries continue.

Carl Vessey-Baitson from the NCA said: “Arresting such a large number of individuals, as part of one Stovewood sub-operation, shows our desire to listen to victims and bring offenders to justice is not wavering.

“Stovewood is a challenging and complex investigation, with victims and survivors re-living abuse that took place many years ago.

“To date we have engaged with over 410 victims and survivors and have arrested or interviewed by appointment 94 suspects, meaning this is the largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual abuse and exploitation ever undertaken in the UK.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/police-arrest-40-men-and-women-in-latest-probe-into-sex-offences-in-rotherham-1-9754969

Notable: >>6444621 New DJT twat w/CAP 2: Response to NYT slanted tax reporting

New DJT

Timestamps are PDT

Good explanation by Potus of the tax reporting from NYT. As a fair comparison, they should do a report on how many other billionaires lost money in the 80s and 90s, but of course they can't be fair.

Notable: Under investigation by the Army IG, Florida National Guard’s No. 2 commander steps down

The embattled assistant adjutant general of the Florida National Guard, under investigation for allegations he covered up sexual misconduct in the ranks, announced Tuesday he was stepping down.

In a statement to Military Times, Brig. Gen. Michael Canzoneri maintained his innocence, but that he was stepping down to avoid distractions.

“I maintain my innocence in the allegations,” he said. “However, the investigation is a distraction to the force, our soldiers have a mission. So in order to support our soldiers, I have chosen to step down.”

Canzoneri, a 37-year veteran who was promoted to brigadier general in December, 2016, will be on administrative leave until May 31 before entering the retired reserve, according to the guard.

In March, the Tampa Bay Times reported that the Guard — about 12,000 soldiers and airmen who deploy to combat zones and help at home in natural disasters — was facing ongoing investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct and coverups that date back a decade.

Maj. Caitlin Brown, a Florida National Guard spokeswoman, told Military Times that while none of the allegations against Canzoneri have yet been substantiated, there is an ongoing investigation into him by Department of the Army’s Office of the Inspector General.

Some of the allegations against Canzoneri were detailed out in an email to a state lawmaker from south Florida written by Maj. Elliot Potter, a Tampa-based officer in the Florida National Guard’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Potter researched the allegations and forwarded them to his superiors. A copy of his email was obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.

According to Potter, Canzoneri and another officer “have actively concealed evidence of sexual misconduct and other violence committed against soldiers of the Florida National Guard.”

more…

https://www.militarytimes.com/2019/05/07/under-investigation-by-the-army-ig-florida-national-guards-no-2-commander-steps-down/

Notable: Iraq, China’s CPECC in $1.07 bln deal to process gas from Halfaya oilfield

Iraq, China’s CPECC in $1.07 bln deal to process gas from Halfaya oilfield

Iraq and China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC) signed a $1.07 billion deal to build and operate facilities to process natural gas extracted alongside crude oil at Iraq’s giant Halfaya oilfield.

CPECC, an affiliate of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), will process around 300 million standard cubic feet per day (mcf/d) of natural gas extracted from the field alongside crude oil, the oil ministry said.

Halfaya, operated by PetroChina, is Maysan Oil Company’s largest oilfield, producing 370,000 barrels per day (bpd) of the company’s total output of around 510,000 bpd.

The current total production from Maysan Oil Company’s oilfields is now around 630,000 barrels per day and expected to reach 700,000 bpd in one year.

Iraq continues to flare some of the gas extracted alongside crude oil at its fields because it lacks the facilities to process it into fuel for local consumption or exports.

At the signing of the deal on Wednesday, Iraqi oil minister Thamer Ghadhban said that Iraq is in talks with international oil companies to build a 300 million cubic feet gas plant to process gas from the West Qurna 2 and Majnoon oilfields. No company has yet been selected.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/energy/2019/05/08/Iraq-China-s-CPECC-in-1-07-bln-deal-to-process-gas-from-Halfaya-oilfield.html

Notable: Feds file suit against Justice coal companies, seeking $4.8M in fines

The Feds are suing West Virginia's governor and his kids. Not sure if anons have seen.

Feds file suit against Justice coal companies, seeking $4.8M in fines

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/business/feds-files-suit-against-justice-coal-companies-seeking-m-in/article_ebb476af-d181-504d-8d3d-777e41898b7a.html?fbclid=IwAR0c62m1WHIn6XpoXmJliyHiOuwlwh1xftfAAPrt_lXh0xA4guuKuFMRKrE

Notable: The Chinese FIREWORKS display has officially begun, Anons. Enjoy the show.

The Chinese FIREWORKS display has officially begun, Anons. Enjoy the show.

POTUS is speaking directly to this board. His "fireworks" marker is telling us we've officially transitioned from the fake & false Russia Russia Russia narrative to the very REAL China China China reality. This theory/analysis correlates perfectly w/ Q's Bruce Lee, Jet Li martial arts video clips

China has dominated the news cycle since GEOTUS fired off tweets Sun 5/4 & then Mon. 5/6 @ 4am re: stating very clearly that he will not hesitate to increase tariffs from 10-25% on 200bn worth of Chinese consumer goods – calling their bluff ( think jet li martial arts showdown).

This began a crescendo of effects, most notably equities markets WW tanked Tues., as they brace for the implementation on Fri. 5/10 of substantially higher Chinese tariffs.

Article from Politico:

"U.S. companies are bracing for a huge jump in costs as tariffs on $200 billion worth of consumer products and other goods from China are set to more than double on Friday per President Donald Trump’s orders.

U.S. stocks tumbled for a second day after the president tweeted on Sunday that he would increase his 10 percent tariff to 25 percent after China tried to renegotiate certain elements of a proposed trade truce.

After Friday, roughly half of the $505 billion that the U.S. imported from China would be subject to 25 percent tariffs. That will force American companies to either eat the added costs or be forced to pass it to their customers."

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/trumps-taxes-chinese-goods-1415667

"U.S. market closed deeply in the red on Tuesday, as the possibility of no trade deal and more tariffs between the U.S. and China kept haunting investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shaved off 473.39 points, or 1.8%, to 25965.09, while the S&P 500 has tumbled 48.42 points, or 1.7%, to 2884.05 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 159.53 points, or 2%, to 7963.76.

President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he would increase tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports to 25%, up from 10%, and is also considering imposing tariffs on another $325 billion of goods that are currently unaffected. Later on Monday, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin accused China of reneging on trade commitments and declared that the higher tariff rate will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/dow-jones-industrial-average-slumped-473-points-because-no-one-wins-a-trade-war-51557263371

Also on note, early version of gunpowder and subsequently "fireworks" were invented by Chinese alchemists– kek ke ke ke:

"The history of Chinese fireworks as we know them today

The Han dynasty lasted until 220 AD without anyone understanding what else was needed to create fireworks. It wasn’t until the Song dynasty in the eleventh century, that the last thing was found to turn potassium nitrate and sulfur into fireworks – charcoal." https://www.learnchinesehistory.com/history-chinese-fireworks/

https://gbtimes.com/chinas-explosive-history-gunpowder-and-fireworks

Cross-reference w/ the stellar Anon China research below –

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>>6443741 lb

Notable: Stars and Stripes twat w/CAP: Gunfire and multiple blasts shook the Afghan capital Wednesday morning as Taliban insurgents attacked a U.S. aid organization

>>6444483

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Gunfire and multiple blasts shook the Afghan capital Wednesday morning as Taliban insurgents attacked a U.S. aid organization

Notable: >>6444508 New DJT twat w/CAP 1: McConnell Backs Trump: Mueller Report Is 'Case Closed' (video as well)

New DJT

Reverse '86' timestamp

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126066405890318336

May 8, 2019 05:08:47 AM EST trumptwitterarchive.com

McConnell Backs Trump: Mueller Report Is 'Case Closed' | Breitbart https://t.co/eOWQSJX7lO via @BreitbartNews

Notable: Former Clinton and Obama adviser found dead by ‘suicide’ in March

Professor Alan Krueger, a family man known for his smile, was found dead in his home, according to Princeton Police.

According to a statement released by his employer Princeton University, the professor took his own life.

Krueger served as a senior adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. In June his long awaited book Rockonomics is set to be released.

The 58-year-old committed suicide, his family said in a separate statement released by the school Monday, New York Post reports.

https://newspunch.com/former-clinton-obama-adviser-dead-suicide-march/

Notable: Classified Air Force Laser Weapon For Stealth Jets Shoots Down Missiles

Classified Air Force Laser Weapon For Stealth Jets Shoots Down Missiles

DEW

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-05/classified-air-force-laser-weapon-stealth-jets-shoots-down-missiles

Notable: >>6444163, >>6444203, >>6444260 306th Psychological Ops Company: "1st and 10 on the 40"

LBP.jpg, "1st and 10 on the 40" April 18 Q image post decode solved. All I had to do is "expand my thinking" along with the map zoom. You bet I laughed at this! What's up 306th!? We know you're up at this time.

Notable: Trump supporters arrive early for rally on Wed at Panama City Beach, FL

Trump Supporters Arrive Early for Wednesday’s Panama City Beach, FL Rally

Supporters of President Donald Trump arrived early on Tuesday for the President’s reelection rally being held in Panama City Beach, Florida, Wednesday evening. The rally is being held at the Aaron Bessant Amphitheater, a beautiful open-air venue with a mix of seating and standing room with a varying reported capacity of 7,500 to 10,000 people. In the parking lot next to the venue, supporters parked early with some displaying their love of President Trump. Early arrivals came from Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan and from all over Florida. As the evening went on dozens of Trump supporters were hanging out with more driving through asking when would be a good time to come on Wednesday for the rally. Answer: EARLY!!!

Across from the venue, an RV driven by Women 4 Trump Sarasota-Manatee was draped with a large Trump 2020 banner. Next to it was a truck driven by a man from Alabama who had pro-Trump (and Mark Levin) signs with large lettering on the sides and back of the truck.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/trump-supporters-arrive-early-for-wednesdays-panama-city-beach-fl-rally/

Notable: Facebook executive meets with U.S. lawmakers to discuss privacy

Facebook executive meets with U.S. lawmakers to discuss privacy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a multibillion-dollar settlement looming for Facebook over user privacy violations, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg met with U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss legislation to protect users of the social network, officials said. The meetings had been long planned and were not to discuss reports that Facebook will soon settle a probe by the Federal Trade Commission into privacy lapses, according to a Facebook spokeswoman.

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Sandberg met with Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, a Republican, and Democratic Senator Mark Warner and was expected to meet with Republican Senator Jerry Moran later on Tuesday, representatives for the senators confirmed. Moran and Wicker are among the six senators on a working group to draft a bill aimed at setting standards for online privacy for consumers. Sandberg met Monday with Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, according to a staffer in the senator’s office.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating allegations that Facebook failed to live up to a 2011 consent decree to protect users’ privacy. The world’s largest social media network is accused of inappropriately sharing information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook said last month the settlement could cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. Several published reports say a settlement would require the company to create an independent privacy oversight committee and take other steps to safeguard users. The steps would include appointing a federally approved privacy official at the highest level of Facebook and creating a privacy oversight committee that may include Facebook board members. FTC Chairman Joe Simons declined comment on the agency’s probe after a hearing on Tuesday before a Senate appropriations subcommittee.

In the hearing, two lawmakers urged Simons to be tougher, with some of the concern focusing on the big social media platforms. Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, pressed Simons on when the FTC’s newly formed high-tech task force would bring significant new cases. Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat, made a similar point, saying to Simons: “I’m concerned you could be doing much more.”

The potential settlement has found few defenders on Capitol Hill. In a letter to the FTC, Senators Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, and Josh Hawley, a Republican, told the agency that even a $5 billion civil penalty was a “bargain for Facebook” and urged the agency to hold top officials, potentially including founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, personally responsible.

Wyden argued on Tuesday that the social media giant appeared to be getting off easy. “First, Mark Zuckerberg has shown clear disregard for his customers’ privacy. He already has immense personal control over Facebook. I don’t see how making him a compliance officer solves Facebook’s problems,” Wyden said in an email comment. “Second, a $5 billion fine is simply not enough to be a deterrent to a company like Facebook.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ftc-congress/facebook-executive-meets-with-u-s-lawmakers-to-discuss-privacy-idUSKCN1SD2BQ

Notable: >>6444075, >>6444213, >>6444220 Anons digg on HRC Wikileak emails & D5

Night Shift Anons- this is your call to DIG! I was reading through previous threads, and was intrigued by the D5 Algorithm theory. Another Anon posted a Twatter posting by Eric Trump today. I plugged in the photo ID numbers ( which all began with D5) into Tools4Noobs using the D5 Algorithm, then plugged that number into HRC's Wikileaks search by Email-ID and got some interesting emails.

The information is not hidden in the pictures, it is in the photo ID numbers. How many photos has POTUS Team and Q posted in the past year and a half? How many HRC emails can be unlocked? We need to DIG!!!

Maybe this is why we have been forced to use CAPTCHA? They are leading us to utilize the tools given to us by HelperAnon by typing in a code of photo ID letters and numbers to get the information? (We know Captcha doesn't stop the shills!)

Notable: Lawsuits: Amazon fired women after they got pregnant

Lawsuits: Amazon Fired Women After They Got Pregnant

Amazon has been hit with at least seven wrongful termination lawsuits, as seven female warehouse employees claim that the company fired them after they had gotten pregnant. Seven women are suing Amazon for wrongful termination, alleging that the company fired them from its warehouse after they got pregnant, according to a report by CNET, adding that the firings had occurred within the time-span of the past four years.

One of the women suing Amazon, 'Beverly Rosales, told CNET that Amazon claims it fired her for taking too much time off of work, but Rosales says that her termination stemmed from her need to visit the restroom more often, which her manager counted as “time off task,” meaning the time taken off outside of the allotted breaks employees have throughout the workday. Rosales says that her manager told her it would be “against the rules” to use the restroom more often, suggesting that extra restroom visits would accumulate and count toward time off task. “When I had to go to the restroom, she literally stayed in that spot and waited for me to come back so she could talk to me about it,” said Rosales to CNET, “After that, I would just hold it towards the end of the day because I didn’t want to get fired.”'

An Amazon spokeswoman said in a statement to CNET that the former employee’s claims are “absolutely not true.” “It is absolutely not true that Amazon would fire any employee for being pregnant,” said the Amazon spokeswoman, “we are an equal opportunity employer — we work with our employees to accommodate their medical needs including pregnancy-related needs. We also support new parents by offering various maternity and parental leave benefits.” Questionable practices involving restroom visits appear to be a frequent issue at Amazon. Last year, an undercover journalist and whistleblower reported that Amazon employees working in a warehouse in Staffordshire, United Kingdom were using what he referred to as a “toilet bottle” system, in which employees secretly urinated in a bottle rather than take trips to the restrooms.

The Amazon employees considered the locations of the restrooms to be too sporadically placed, making it difficult for them to get to a restroom and then back to work quickly enough, which they believed put them at risk of getting fired, according to Business Insider, which added that drivers of Amazon-affiliated courier companies also said they found bottles of urine left by other drivers. In February, AJC reported that a former Amazon employee in Kentucky sued the company, alleging that he had been fired after Amazon discriminated against him for having Crohn’s disease, a digestive disorder that caused him to take frequent trips to the restroom. Another Amazon employee contracted the flu while pregnant in 2017, according to CNET, adding that the employee was advised to take three days off of work to rest, because the doctor said that there were difficulties detecting her baby’s heartbeat. The lawsuit alleges that an Amazon human resources manager said that the company “does not accept doctor’s notes,” and that the pregnant employee was fired four days later. The federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act does not allow for companies to discriminate against pregnant women.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/07/lawsuits-amazon-fired-women-after-they-got-pregnant/

Notable: Peinovich: Establishment wants to blame the NRA

This is just perfect. The truth stings but it’s needed.

Notable: Schneiderman Accuser Says The Abuse Got Worse After Trump Won The Election (because of S's response to election results)

Schneiderman Accuser Says The Abuse Got Worse After Trump Won The Election

One of the women who accused former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of physical and verbal abuse said it got worse after President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Because of what his quick rise as a prominent anti-Trumper did to his ego, Tanya Selvaratnam said Trump’s win exacerbated Schneiderman’s abusive tendencies. The Washington Post included her remarks in a report on her life since coming forward with the accusations last year. She accused Schneiderman of verbally demeaning her and physically abusing her during sex. Selvaratnam told The Washington Post she was disillusioned by the disconnect she saw between Schneiderman’s public image as a #MeToo champion — “People would literally be coming up to him and saying: Save us” — and his treatment of her in private. And that compounded the “trauma of the Trump era” for her.

From The Washington Post: “The abuse seemed to worsen after Donald Trump was elected, she says, as Schneiderman began burnishing his reputation as one of the president-elect’s primary antagonists. ‘I was seeing behind the scenes that it was kind of smoke and mirrors, his ability to actually take down the president,’ she recalls. ‘I was disillusioned on many levels — with him as a person and as a politician.’ The trauma of the Trump era felt both personal and political. ‘People would literally be coming up to him and saying: Save us,‘ she says. ‘I witnessed this time and time again. In the back of my mind, I’d think, Do they have any idea what he does to me at home?’ A few weeks later, she went with a friend to his apartment to pick up her things. Selvaratnam still thought she was alone in having suffered from his abuse, and that the pressures of the Trump win had been, in part, to blame. But the friend who escorted her, Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer at the New Yorker, said she bet there were other women with similar experiences.”

Selvaratnam said she doesn’t regret coming forward, and is working on a book to help other victims of abuse. Schneiderman resigned in May 2018, just hours after she and three other women detailed the allegations of abuse in a report by The New Yorker. He initially denied the allegations, but later apologized after prosecutors decided not to press charges.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/07/schneiderman-abuse-victim-trump-election/

Notable: French air traffic control strike to ground hundreds of flights

French air traffic-control strike to ground hundreds of flights

10:52 PM - 7 May 2019

https://twitter.com/nipsa/status/1126001822089531392

Notable: Neal plans next steps on obtaining Trump's tax returns by end of week

Neal plans next steps on obtaining Trump's tax returns by end of week

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal said Tuesday that the committee will weigh its options regarding its demand to review President Trump’s tax returns, hinting it could soon take the administration to court to force the release of the documents. “There does not have to be an intermediary step,” Neal said. Regarding the status of the tax returns investigation, the Massachusetts Democrat said that he would be consulting with lawyers for the committee and for the House Thursday, and that “I’ll have an answer for you by the end of the week."

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied Neal's request for Trump's tax returns on Monday, saying that there wasn't a legitimate purpose for the demand, setting up the possibility of a court battle. Neal downplayed the possibility of issuing a subpoena, noting that other committees have not been successful in obtaining information from the administration that way. And he all but ruled out a motion to hold Mnuchin in contempt of Congress, telling reporters the committee is not currently considering that. “We’re going to talk on Thursday, but that’s not a point of conversation at the moment,” Neal said. Citing advice from the House’s legal counsel not to comment on the ongoing investigation into Trump’s taxes, Neal declined to comment on a New York Times report Tuesday that Trump did not pay taxes in eight of the years 1985 through 1994 due to business losses, which totaled approximately $1.2 billion.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/neal-plans-next-steps-on-obtaining-trumps-tax-returns-by-end-of-week

Meanwhile: House Ways And Means Chair Refused To Release His Own Tax Returns

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/04/house-ways-and-means-chair-refused-to-release-tax-returns/

Notable: Feinstein breaks home-state endorsement rule to spurn Harris and back Biden: 'I feel very loyal to him'

Feinstein breaks home-state endorsement rule to spurn Kamala Harris and back Biden: 'I feel very loyal to him

Almost all the senators in the 2020 Democratic presidential field enjoy the support of their fellow home state Democratic senators, but California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., broke that mold with her endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden over her fellow Californian, Sen. Kamala Harris Feinstein told the Washington Examiner Tuesday that she feels more loyal to Biden than Harris. '“I’ve known Joe Biden for 20 years. When he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he made me the first woman. We have a longstanding relationship that dates way back. I love Kamala, I appreciate her, but she has known about this for some time. But that’s what I’m going to do. I feel very loyal to him,"' Feinstein said.

Other senators, several of them, like Feinstien, 85, veteran lawmakers, either don't share the same bond with Biden, 76, or don't have the same sense of loyalty. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as a “proven leader with a strong message” the day Sanders announced his candidacy. When Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., announced his candidacy, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said that Booker “makes a great friend, and will make an even greater president.” Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., was “proud to stand with” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., when Klobuchar announced her campaign, and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., threw his support behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, when she announced her candidacy. The only other senator seeking the presidency without the support of a home-state Democratic senator is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., said in March that he will “stay out of the presidential” race. “Let's see who the best candidate is," he said.

Feinstein, on the other hand, not only threw her support behind Biden but also drew attention to the limited experience in national politics of Harris, 54. Harris was elected to the Senate in 2016. “She’s brand-new here, so it takes a little bit of time to get to know somebody,” Feinstein said in January. Feinstein’s support of Biden rather than Harris underscores the difference between older factions of the Democratic Party and the new, aggressive, liberal wing. While the two senators vote together about nine times out of 10, according to ProPublica, Feinstein's approach to some controversial issues differs from Harris. "A lot of the positions that Biden's taken that he's getting flak for, Feinstein's taken the same positions along the way," John Thomas, a Republican strategist in California, told the Washington Examiner. There may been some history here as well.

When Harris was San Francisco district attorney, her handling of a 2004 killing of a police officer by a gang member prompted sharp criticism from Feinstein. Harris said that she would not seek the death penalty for the killer, and in response, Feinstein said that if she had known that Harris was against the death penalty, she probably wouldn’t have endorsed her for district attorney.

Feinstein also disagreed with comments Harris made about "Medicare for all," which would eliminate private health insurance, at a CNN town hall in January. “Who of us has not had that situation, where you’ve got to wait for approval and the doctor says well, ‘I don’t know if your insurance company is going to cover this.’ Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on,” Harris said at the town hall. In response, Feinstein said she was "not there” on eliminating private health insurance. "Feinstein respects seniority," Thomas said, noting that she is also very relationship-oriented and is more familiar with Biden. "Almost stroking her own ego, she needs to go with someone who has a comparable level of seniority." Harris on Tuesday ignored questions from the Washington Examiner in the halls of the Capitol, and her campaign and Senate office did not return requests for comment.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/feinstein-breaks-home-state-endorsement-rule-to-spurn-kamala-harris-and-back-biden-i-feel-very-loyal-to-him

Notable: Pdop " Clapper outsourced spying on him, admits it was normal on CNN, and was for Israel"

uh… guys??

Notable: U.S. Army Tweeted The SAME Tweet 21 Days Apart

U.S. Army Tweeted The SAME Tweet 21 Days Apart

Q drop that contains [-21] lines up on the Qclock with today.

Notable: Second suspect in STEMshooting is a tranny

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1125978029660954624

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/at-least-one-victim-in-shooting-at-stem-school-highlands-ranch-authorities-say

Notable: Article on Epstein building compound

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/epstein-building-compound-on-great-st-james/article_a49261e9-40f0-57b1-9501-605e26e74cf3.html

Notable: Sunscreen chemicals seep into your bloodstream after one day of use

>>6443077

Sunscreen chemicals seep into your bloodstream after one day of use: study

By Amanda Woods May 7, 2019

The chemicals in popular sunscreens don’t just sit on the surface of the skin — many of them are absorbed into the bloodstream at levels that far surpass government-recommended thresholds for the compounds, according to a new study.

The results of the study, published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA, don’t mean that the active ingredients contained in sunscreen are unsafe, according to an editorial accompanying the study, written by Food and Drug Administration chairman Robert Califf and JAMA dermatology editor in chief Kanade Shinkai.

But the findings should give the industry pause, the researchers said.

“The study findings raise many important questions about sunscreen and the process by which the sunscreen industry, clinicians, specialty organizations, and regulatory agencies evaluate the benefits and risks of this topical OTC medication,” the authors wrote.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/07/sunscreen-chemicals-seep-into-your-bloodstream-after-one-day-of-use-study/

Notable: >>6443020 DJT BIG fireworks and Q drop 1748 BIG about to drop both have :51 timestamp

POTUS & Q say "BIG"

Both have same minute marker (:51)

>>6443020

Notable: Senator Harris Misses Huge Revelation From Barr During Senate Testimony

https://www.theepochtimes.com/senator-harris-misses-huge-revelation-from-barr-during-senate-testimony_2908814.html

Notable: Trump Shifts All Security Clearance Work to Pentagon

It’s Official: Trump Shifts All Security Clearance Work to Pentagon

After months of speculation and a standing September deadline, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday officially moving the federal government’s background and security clearance investigations to the Defense Department and giving the receiving office a new name.

After the 2015 breach of Office of Personnel Management systems that compromised sensitive personal information of more than 21 million current and prospective federal employees and contractors, the Obama administration created a new background investigation office called the National Background Investigation Bureau. But the administration also charged the Defense Department with supporting NBIB by building and managing the underlying IT systems, which would be called the National Background Investigation Service.

Congress later passed language in the 2018 defense authorization bill giving the Defense Department responsibility for meeting its own clearance needs, which make up about 70 percent of all investigations work. The remaining 30 percent of civilian agency clearances would remain with NBIB and OPM.

Rather than split that work up, the Trump administration made moves to migrate all clearance work to the Defense Department under the Defense Security Service. As the early days of planning began, officials took the opportunity to rethink the process, which hadn’t had an overhaul in more than 50 years.

With Wednesday’s executive order, the move becomes official. The order also gives the Security Service a new name: the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The Defense Secretary is empowered to change the name again or move investigations to another Defense office, but must first consult with OPM, the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The newly named office will be taking over all background investigations work by the end of September—a schedule set well before Wednesday’s executive order—but will get to work on some aspects much sooner.

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“[N]o later than June 24, 2019, the DCSA shall serve as the primary entity for conducting effective, efficient and secure background investigations for the federal government for determining whether covered individuals are or continue to be eligible for access to classified information or eligible to hold a sensitive position,” according to the order, giving the office just two months to take over the new continuous evaluation program for current clearance holders.

Continuous evaluation—part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative launched in February to overhaul the clearance process—uses public and private data sources to flag potentially compromising behavior and alert decision-makers in real-time.

That program is already assessing 1.1 million clearance holders, according to Terry Carpenter, program executive officer for NBIS, the office overseeing the technical overhaul of the investigations process.

That work will only increase after June 24, but the teams will be getting assistance. As DCSA takes over all investigations work, NBIB staff and resources will be integrated into the new office. As part of the plan, some 2,000 employees will be transferred, NBIB Director Charles Phalen told Congress in December. The executive order requires the Defense Department and OPM to have a hard plan in writing by June 24. That plan will be executed through a newly established Personnel Vetting Transformation Office at DOD.

NBIB will continue to process background investigations through the transition, but no later than September 30, according to the order.

In March, DCSA, then still the Defense Security Service, absorbed the NBIS office and its 40 employees, previously housed at the Defense Information Systems Agency.

The order also calls for the secretary of Defense to take a leading role in ensuring the underlying technology stays up to date to avoid another breach.

“The Secretary of Defense shall design, develop, deploy, operate, secure, defend and continuously update and modernize, as necessary, information technology systems that support all personnel vetting processes conducted by the Department of Defense,” the order reads.

https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2019/04/its-official-trump-shifts-all-security-clearance-work-pentagon/156534/

Notable: Sara Carter on the DOJ, Nadler, Barr Contempt, and Executive Priv from pb notable

https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1125962561499947008?s=19

(speckles/dots on second page looked kind of odd to me. Maybe nothing.)

Notable: STEM Shooter HATED TRUMP and CHRISTIANS

STEM Shooter HATED TRUMP and CHRISTIANS

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1125947932019048449

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/7/devon-erickson-identified-stem-school-highlands-ra/

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Reports: Police identify suspect in Colorado school shooting

"Social-media profile suggests teen hated Christians and Trump, called himself a grunge fan 'addicted to pain'"

Notable: >>6442721, >>6442103 (pb op) Karate Kid Q drop - upload and site creation date 1/19, duration 1:19

>>6442644

>>6442103 (pb) Karate Kid clip published 1/19, duration 1:19, channel also created 1/19

>can someone verify

checks out

https://www.youtube.com/user/velma1975/about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oP2F5CM30k

Notable: US ambassador to Kiev sacked amid ‘meddling’ accusations from Ukraine’s top prosecutor

US ambassador to Kiev sacked amid ‘meddling’ accusations from Ukraine’s top prosecutor

Washington’s ambassador to Ukraine has been dismissed from service two months ahead of schedule. The development comes less than a month after the top Ukrainian prosecutor claimed she gave him a ‘do-not-prosecute list.’

Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch will leave her position on May 20, some two months ahead of the end of her tenure, the Ukrainian media and the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported earlier this week, citing sources within the American embassy in Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/news/458674-us-ambassador-ukraine-sacked-scandal/

Notable: 3 new DJT retweets

>>6442533

POTUS Retweets

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lDGLrEplZLxm

And on the fireworks posts, just add them next to the POTUS tweet.

There's only a few, they could probably be all in one line

Notable: Apple&Google pull 3 dating apps after it's revealed they allowed as young as 12

Apple and Google pull three dating apps from their online stores after it's revealed they allowed CHILDREN as young as 12 to create profiles

Three dating apps were removed by Apple and Google for allowing children

The apps have already proven to be tools of sexual predators in recent cases

Apps also collected live location data, birth dates, pictures, and more

UK legislators may require more stringent age verification for such apps

Following warnings from the FTC, both Apple and Google have removed several dating apps from their platforms that they say allowed children to join.

According to a letter sent by the FTC to Ukraine-based Wildec LLC, which owns FastMeet, Meet24 and Meet4U, the trio of dating apps allowed children as young as 12 to participate in the service and communicate with adults.

In an FTC investigation of the app, the organization says they were also able to identify and confirm multiple children within the service using a built-in age filter that allows users to search by age.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7003687/Apple-Google-ban-three-dating-apps-allowed-CHILDREN-young-12-create-profiles.html

Notable: The 9th Circuit grants admin's request to send asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait out court proceedings

Huuuuge!!! Just out!

(((▪︎Appeals court allows Trump administration to send back asylum seekers to Mexico to wait out court process▪︎)))

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late Tuesday granted the Trump administration's request to send asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait out court proceedings temporarily.

The court order reversed a decision by a San Francisco judge that would have blocked the policy — giving President Trump a temporary victory on immigration.

The case must still be considered on its merits at a lower court in San Francisco and could end up at the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled April 8 that the policy should be halted while the lawsuit proceeds.

The so-called "Remain in Mexico" policy was one of the primary innovations of former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who left her role with the Trump administration last month.

This is a developing story; please check back for updates.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-to-send-back-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-to-wait-out-court-process

Notable: Article on Mt Rushmore 2020 Fireworks

>>6442226

>New POTUS Tweet

Fourth of July fireworks to return to Mount Rushmore in 2020

www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/07/fourth-july-fireworks-return-mount-rushmore-2020-kristi-noem-donald-trump/1121070001/

Notable: Mistrial Hearing at 9:00 AM Tomorrow – Future of Trial in Doubt (cont'd from pb notables)

Mistrial Hearing at 9:00 AM Tomorrow – Future of Trial in Doubt

The first day of Keith Raniere’s trial ended on an odd note with Raniere’s lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, indicating he wanted the presiding judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, to declare a mistrial – and a clearly miffed Judge Garaufis indicating that, if a mistrial is declared, a second trial would not start until September.

Courtroom observers indicated that Agnifilo was displeased over the fact that the lead prosecutor, Moira Kim Penza, had instructed the prosecution’s first witness, a British citizen named Sylvie, that she could mention the last name of someone she was describing during her testimony.

Agnifilo apparently did not object to Penza’s instruction before Sylvie mentioned the person’s last name.

But as soon as the jury had been dismissed for the day, Agnifilo indicated to the court that a mistrial needed to be declared because of the person’s last name being mentioned.

Judge Garaufis chastised Agnifilo for not raising an objection on the matter when it first came up – and heatedly asked him if he really wanted to come back and try the case in September.

Agnifilo responded by telling the judge that he would sooner do that than proceed with a trial that was unfair to his client.

https://frankreport.com/2019/05/07/mistrial-hearing-at-900-am-tomorrow-future-of-trial-in-doubt/

Notable: Pompeo Arctic Council: This is America’s moment to stand up as an Arctic nation and for the Arctic’s future

Breaking Down Pompeo’s Verbal Assault on Russia and China’s Arctic Interests

The American Secretary of State threw down the gauntlet at Monday’s Arctic Council summit and showed the world that his country will actively challenge Russia and China’s interests in the Arctic Ocean.

US Secretary of State Pompeo’s appearance at Monday’s Arctic Council summit in Finland would have been a routine affair had it not been for his keynote speech verbally assaulting Russia and China’s interests in the Arctic Ocean. His words amounted to nothing less than a declaration of Hybrid War against these two multipolar Great Powers and therefore deserve to be studied more in detail beyond the casual attention given to them by the Mainstream Media. What follows is a collection of excerpts from his speech followed by a brief interpretation of the strategic meaning being conveyed, with the purpose of this exercise being to raise awareness of the US’ approach to the region and its likely modi operandi for advancing its interests there:

Passage:

“This is America’s moment to stand up as an Arctic nation and for the Arctic’s future. Because far from the barren back country that many thought it to be in Seward’s time, the Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance. It houses 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil, 30 percent of its undiscovered gas, and an abundance of uranium, rare earth minerals, gold, diamonds, and millions of square miles of untapped resources. Fisheries galore.

And its centerpiece, the Arctic Ocean, is rapidly taking on new strategic significance. Offshore resources, which are helping the respective coastal states, are the subject of renewed competition. Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days. Arctic sea lanes could come before – could come the 21s century Suez and Panama Canals.”

Interpretation:

The Arctic Ocean is one of the most resource-rich areas in the world and its geostrategic importance is rapidly rising due to its increasingly active sea lanes connecting East Asia with Western Europe.

Passage:

“China has observer status in the Arctic Council, but that status is contingent upon its respect for the sovereign rights of Arctic states. The U.S. wants China to meet that condition and contribute responsibly in the region. But China’s words and actions raise doubts about its intentions.”

Interpretation:

Fake news fearmongering about Chinese activity in the region, including the claims that Pompeo will soon make, could be exploited as the pretext for jeopardizing the country’s observer status in the Arctic Council and subsequently contributing to what the US believes would be its so-called “isolation” as a result.

Passage:

“Between 2012 and 2017, China invested in the Arctic nearly $90 billion. It’s planning to build infrastructure from Canada, to the Northwest Territories, to Siberia. Just last month, Russia announced plans to connect the Northern Sea Route with China’s Maritime Silk Road, which would develop a new shipping channel from Asia to northern Europe. Meanwhile, China is already developing shipping lanes in the Arctic Ocean.

This is part of a very familiar pattern.

Beijing attempts to develop critical infrastructure using Chinese money, Chinese companies, and Chinese workers – in some cases, to establish a permanent Chinese security presence. Our Pentagon warned just last week that China could use its civilian research presence in the Arctic to strengthen its military presence, including our deployment of submarines – including deployment of submarines to the region as a deterrent against nuclear attack.”

Interpretation:

The US is repeating its usual rhetoric about how China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is supposedly a front for clandestinely expanding its military influence all across the world.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pompeo-verbal-assault-russia-chinas-arctic-interests/5676835

Notable: epic digits roll for anon dropping sweet Baker memes (BaQer)

Baker Badge Plain Q .png Only File

Baker Badge USA Q .png Only File

Baker Badge Bread Q .png Only File

Notable: >>6442179, >>6442203, >>6442582 anons on Fireworks DJT - Q drops and includes Comey Rushmore

>>6442153

>>6442153

FIRWORKS!!

Notable: New DJT-THE BIG FIREWORKS are coming back to beautiful Mount Rushmore

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1125941300518432771?s=19

Notable: 'History' on the clock

>>6441999

Filter is on the menu right beside where it says Anonymous.

You wasted trips.

Another HISTORY retweet by POTUS.

Notable: Nunes and Schiff threaten to Subpoena DOJ for Russia probe records

Pretty interdasting - NUNES, SCHIFF THREATEN TO SUBPOENA DOJ FOR RUSSIA PROBE RECORDS

In a rare bipartisan move, the top Democrat and Republican on the House Intelligence Committee threatened to subpoena the Justice Department for records related to the Russia probe and special counsel’s investigation.

In a letter dated April 25, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and ranking member Devin Nunes pressed Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide an unredacted version of the special counsel’s report and other evidence by May 2. Otherwise, they threatened to begin the “compulsory process,” or subpoena.

The letter was released Tuesday, suggesting the Justice Department has not started providing the documents.

“[T]he Committee has an obligation to examine the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information gathered by the Special Counsel’s Office, assess the counterintelligence and national security implications, and consider whether legislation or other appropriate remedies are required in response,” the letter reads.

Schiff and Nunes have two different goals in mind with the subpoena threat.

Schiff has pressed for the unredacted special counsel’s 448-page report. Though the report said investigators were unable to find evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, Schiff has asserted the Kremlin still could have compromised Trump & Co. (RELATED: Nunes: Schiff Wants Full Mueller Report ‘So They Can Leak It’)

Nunes has sought evidence that might shed light on the FBI’s rationale for opening its investigation in 2016 into the Trump campaign. The Republican has accused the FBI of misleading the federal surveillance court and of spying on the Trump team.

Barr is also facing a subpoena threat from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler. The Democrat wants Barr to testify before his committee, and face questions from staff members.

He also wants Barr to provide a less-redacted version of the special counsel’s report to more members of Congress than have already been granted access to view the document. Nadler is holding a vote Wednesday to hold Barr in contempt of Congress for skipping a hearing that was scheduled for May 2.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/07/nunes-schiff-justice-russia-probe/

Notable: , >>6441935 Canada's Military Intelligence, Canadian's in the dark

Month old sauce but it looks notable

Canada's Military Intelligence

Canadian's in the Dark

Set to SHINE A LIGHT

Take a

LOOK!

A cyber war has started and Canada isn’t ready to fight it says report

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/a-cyber-war-has-started-and-canada-isn-t-ready-to-fight-it-says-report-1.5045950

A parliamentary committee is set to shine a light on the shadowy business of military intelligence

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-intelligence-canada-parliamentary-committee-1.5087547

Military's intelligence operations questioned by Mps

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-s-intelligence-operations-questioned-by-mps-1.5090410

Military intelligence chief insists his people operate within the law

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-intelligence-chief-insists-his-people-operate-within-the-law-1.5092891

Notable: , >>6441916 New DJT

New POTUS Tweet

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1125929401223454720

Notable: DJTJr tweets re twitter banning conservatives

New DJT Jr.

Why is it that @Twitter seemingly never "mistakenly" suspends a high-profile Democrat? Why is it always conservatives? 🤔🧐

https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/1125926506730012672?s=21

Notable: Fort Bragg Retweets "St Michael", lines up on the clock with Q Post

Fort Bragg Retweets - "St Michael…"

Happens to line up with Q's St. Michael drop on the Qclock today.

https://twitter.com/FtBraggNC

Notable: More photos from the MET Gala

I have no idea who any of them are. I don't care to though. They're all retarded af.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/met-gala-2019-most-memorable-beauty-and-hair-looks.html

Notable: Good news sources on the NXIVM case and report of mistrial request filed

What don't (((They))) want US to find out?

Mistrial request filed in Keith Raniere / #NXIVM Case. IS something BIG about to Drop?

(((They))) are desperate. Anons need lots of eyes-on procedings.

Info for a good 'news source' on NXIVM Case follows:

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@AylaFerrone

#BREAKING: Marc Agnifilo just telling me they have filed for a mistrial in the #NXIVM case against Keith Raniere but would not comment further.

https://twitter.com/AylaFerrone/status/1125873022592868354

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@AylaFerrone

If you're following our complete coverage on the #NXIVM trial and Keith Raniere, this link has everything compiled in one place including links to our past special reports, #LIVE blog, and reports from the courthouse.

https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/trial-against-nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-begins/1986506939

https://twitter.com/AylaFerrone/status/1125914286579228673

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https://twitter.com/AylaFerrone

Notable: Syrian UN envoy: US violating NPT, ignoring Israel's breaches of accord

US violating NPT, ignoring Israeli regime’s breaches of accord: Syrian UN envoy

Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari has slammed the United States for flagrantly violating the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and turning a blind eye to the Israeli regime’s breaches of the international accord.

“Syria took the initiative in 1968 to join the treaty, and signed the agreement of guarantees with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1992 … It also presented a draft resolution in 2003 aimed at the establishment of a (Middle East) region free from weapons of mass destruction (WMD); but the US blocked the measure,” Ja’afari said at the the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York on Tuesday.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/07/595334/US-violating-NPT-ignoring-Israeli-regimes-breaches-of-accord-Syrian-UN-envoy

Notable: Horowitz back on twitter w/o his check, followers and past tweets

Horowitz is back but lost his blue check and all his followers plus his past tweets.

https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/1125916192156278785

Notable: Court rules that asylum seekers can remain in Mexico

Moar Winning

#BREAKING: Court rules Trump admin can continue policy requiring asylum seekers remain in Mexico

https://thehill.com/latino/442625-court-rules-trump-admin-can-continue-policy-requiring-asylum-seekers-remain-in-mexico

Notable: Anons test new theory with D5 photo filenames leading to WL emails

Tonight

Shit works, check it out, been looking at DOD, Marines, State Dept, Trump..D5 muddafuckas

Convert photo file names that start with D5 in the hash converter, carry it over to HC wikileaks, enter converted value in email search by #…..sometimes it works, thanks to anon this morning for figuring this out. Learning our comms.

Notable: FDA Approves Faulty Dengue Vaccine

FDA Approves Faulty Dengue Vaccine that Harmed 100,000 Children in the Philippines, Killing Some, and Prompted Lawsuits

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved one of the most sought after vaccines in recent decades. It’s the world’s first vaccine to prevent dengue fever — a disease so painful that its nickname is “breakbone fever.”

The vaccine, called Dengvaxia, is aimed at helping children in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories where dengue is a problem.

But this vaccine has a dark — and deadly — history. One that has led to criminal charges in the Philippines, and sparked national panic.

[E]stimates are that more than 100,000 Philippine children received a vaccine that health officials say increased their risk of a severe and sometimes deadly condition. In addition, other children who received the vaccine may have been endangered because, their parents alleged, they were not in good health.

The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur spent 20 years — and about $2 billion — to develop Dengvaxia. The company tested it in several large trials with more than 30,000 kids globally and published the results in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

But halfway around the world from the Philippines, in a Washington, D.C., suburb, one scientist was worried about the new vaccine.

“When I read the New England Journal article, I almost fell out of my chair,” says Dr. Scott Halstead, who has studied dengue for more than 50 years with the U.S. military.

When Halstead looked at the vaccine’s safety data in the clinical trial, he knew right away there was a problem.

For some children, the vaccine didn’t seem to work. In fact, Halstead says, it appeared to be harmful. When those kids caught dengue after being vaccinated, the vaccine appeared to worsen the disease in some instances. Specifically, for children who had never been exposed to dengue, the vaccine seemed to increase the risk of a deadly complication called plasma leakage syndrome, in which blood vessels start to leak the yellow fluid of the blood.

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/05/07/fda-approves-faulty-dengue-vaccine-that-harmed-100000-children-in-the-philippines-killing-some-and-prompted-lawsuits/

Notable: , >>6441245 More MET Gala photos

I like fashion, but the pretentious Met Gala grotesquery made me physically repulsed

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/458678-met-gala-leto-perry-repulsive/

Satanism perhaps?

Notable: America's Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think

America's Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think

Each year, Congress approves hundreds of billions of dollars for the US defense budget… but the real number exceeds $1 trillion.

In its latest budget request, the Trump administration is asking for a near-record $750 billion for the Pentagon and related defense activities—an astonishing figure by any measure. If passed by Congress, it will be one of the largest military budgets in American history, topping peak levels reached during the Korean and Vietnam wars. And keep one thing in mind: That $750 billion represents only part of the actual annual cost of our national security state.

There are at least 10 separate pots of money dedicated to fighting wars, preparing for yet more wars, and dealing with the consequences of wars already fought. So the next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the US military is woefully underfunded, think twice. A careful look at US defense expenditures offers a healthy corrective to such wildly inaccurate claims.

Now, let’s take a brief dollar-by-dollar tour of the US national security state of 2019, tallying the sums as we go, and see just where we finally land (or perhaps the word should be “soar”), financially speaking.

The Pentagon’s base budget: The Pentagon’s regular, or base, budget is slated to be $544.5 billion in fiscal year 2020—a healthy sum but only a modest down payment on total military spending.

As you might imagine, that base budget provides basic operating funds for the Department of Defense, much of which will be squandered on preparations for ongoing wars never authorized by Congress, overpriced weapons systems that aren’t actually needed, or outright waste, an expansive category that includes everything from cost overruns to unnecessary bureaucracy. That $544.5 billion is the amount publicly reported by the Pentagon for its essential expenses and includes $9.6 billion in mandatory spending that goes toward items like military retirement.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-07/americas-defense-budget-bigger-you-think

Notable: FBI Fights to Keep Leaker Comey’s ‘Trump Memos’ Secret

FBI Fights to Keep Leaker Comey’s ‘Trump Memos’ Secret

The battle for fired FBI Director James Comey’s ‘Trump memos’ escalated Tuesday.

The FBI argued in a new court filing Tuesday that the release of Mueller’s report “does not alter the FBI’s position with regard to the remaining redactions in the Comey Memos.”

In other words, the FBI is still blocking the release of leaker Comey’s Trump memos.

-REWIND-

In late March, US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington (also a FISA judge) ordered the FBI to turn over Comey’s ‘Trump memos’ — both clean and redacted versions by April 1st as he weighed releasing them to the public.

The FBI previously pushed back on March 1st and wrote to Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, saying that the memos were still redacted and classified and should remain under seal to avoid interfering with Mueller’s inquisition — Mueller’s witch hunt ended last month so the judge asked the FBI to file an opinion about the release of Comey’s memos.

The FBI dropped another bombshell in an April 9 filing — Comey was actually a witness in Mueller’s investigation.

“The FBI and the Special Counsel’s office have determined that disclosure of the Comey Memos … could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the pending Russia investigation. The Comey Memos are his contemporaneous notes about incidents that are of interest in that investigation …” said a court filing on April 9th – the same filing which revealed that Comey was actually a witness in Mueller’s investigation.

The documents also suggest then-FBI Director James Comey began his coup against President Trump because he didn’t like his foreign-policy decision-making.

The documents were released as part of a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, CNN, USA Today and others against the FBI in an effort to make Comey’s Trump memos public.

It turns out that hiding behind the Mueller investigation was just an excuse because the FBI is still pushing back and fighting like hell to keep the memos secret — the same memos Comey strategically leaked to the New York Times through his friend Daniel Goldman.

The DOJ did however authorize a release of the January 22, 2018 transcript (unclassified) from the ex parte hearing which means we will see perhaps the description of Comey’s memos and the argument to the judge for keeping them secret.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/new-fbi-fights-to-keep-leaker-comeys-trump-memos-secret/

Notable: , >>6441133, >>6441209 NYT on how POTUS' tax returns were obtained

>>6440774

Muh, we really didn’t obtain his actual tax returns. Phonies

We did not obtain Donald Trump’s actual tax returns. But we obtained printouts from his official IRS tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, from someone who had legal access to them.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1125908746964803584?s=21

Notable: , >>6441043, 6441193 STEM School Highland Park website and updates

STEM School Highland Park website:

https://www.stemk12.org/

Notable: POTUS breaks with David Bossie over deceptive fundraising

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-breaks-with-key-loyalist-david-bossie-over-deceptive-fundraising

Notable: , >>6441024, >>6441147 Dig on HRC's 7th Floor Group

Looking back through old digs in the dig folder here.

Found some interdasting dirt on Hillary's "7th Floor Group" from January 2018.

Just ignore the sauce if it bothers you; it's only citing the FBI Vault drop relevant:

https://www.infowars.com/fbi-hillarys-shadow-government-buried-email-scandal/

"…That memo, dated Aug. 8, 2015, (FBI Vault, Hillary R. Clinton, Part 4, pp. 53-57), contains the following paragraph that makes explicit reference to the “Shadow Government” constituted within the Department of State to protect Sec. Clinton from potentially criminal mishandling of classified information.

The paragraph in question reads as follows:

There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as “The 7th Floor Group” or “the Shadow Government.” This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries. The known regular attendees included Jonathan FINER, Jennifer STOUT, Deputy Chief of Staff, Heather HIGGINBOTTOM, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources KENNEDY, Julia FRIFIELD, Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, [REDACTED] Office of Legal Adviser, [REDACTED] Office of the Legal Adviser overseeing STATE’S [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]."

(to be continued)

Notable: The US removes all sanctions on Venezuelan General

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1125896971519238144

Notable: Twitter bans David Horowitz

https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1125894974787207169

Notable: , >>6440547, >>6440988, >>6440713, >>6440881 FISAgate blowing wide open

New John Solomon. Scorching it!

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec's written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.

And that confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele's now-discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign's ties to Russia.

Steele's client "is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8," the date of the 2016 election, Kavalec wrote in a typed summary of her meeting with Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague from Steele's Orbis Security firm. The memos were unearthed a few days ago through open-records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United.

Notable: USArmy Tweet: "The #USArmy honors @unccharlotte Cadet Riley Howell who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of others." o7

The #USArmy honors @unccharlotte Cadet Riley Howell who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of others.

#ServeWithHonor

https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1125884530643087360

Notable: Amb. Stevens wanted to get out of Libya in 2011.

Amb. Stevens wanted to get out of Libya in 2011.

https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-32-of-32/view

Notable: >>6440424 Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: His client wanted to air Trump dirt before Election Day.

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1125883643669430273

Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: His client wanted to air Trump dirt before Election Day

Notable: Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan’s meeting with Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez.

Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan’s Meeting with Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez

05/07/2019 04:59 PM EDT

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. NR-112-19

May 7, 2019

Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan’s Meeting with Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez

Acting Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Charles E. Summers Jr. provided the following readout:

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan met with Colombian Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez to reaffirm the close partnership between the United States and Colombia and to discuss the crisis in Venezuela.

Secretary Shanahan thanked Vice President Ramirez for Colombia's support in addressing the crisis, and praised the robust military partnership between the nations.

Secretary Shanahan described the situation in Venezuela as "one of the most critically important challenges to our hemisphere's peace and prosperity." The leaders pledged to work together to seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, and to ensure that malign actors are not able to further destabilize the situation.

Secretary Shanahan congratulated Colombia on its NATO Global Partnership, and recognized Colombian counter-narcotics efforts.

https://dod.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1840897/readout-of-acting-secretary-of-defense-patrick-m-shanahans-meeting-with-colombi

Notable: Planefag: French aircraft near Ven.

F-RAJB 3B7781

French Air Force CTM1023

France Military

Airbus A340 212 A342

At 41000 ft, didn't move for ~20 minutes. Now dark.

Notable: U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iraqi leaders promised to "adequately protect" US interests.

https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1125877690324721665

Notable: Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :36

Time to move on.

They attempted to infiltrate, repackage, & rebrand as their own.

"Be careful who you follow."

"Some are profiting off this movement."

U1 [donations to CF].

What CEOs have resigned post POTUS election?

News beginning to leak.

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :14

TRUMP card coming.

AS.

Feeling ok today?

Wendy.

HUSSEIN.

Mack.

The world is watching.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :06

Why are jobs/economy (growth) relevant?

This requires a DEEP CLEANING.

No leaks?

Think magic.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

What if Snowden was still a Clown?

LEARN!!!

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: NYS Senate passes Bill to allow convicted felons to serve jury duty.

NYS Senate passes Bill to allow convicted felons to serve jury duty………

#NYSenate Bill S221A, sponsored by Senator

@BrianABenjamin

, passed 36-25 (unofficial). Relates to removing the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons who have completed their sentencing:

https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2019/S221

Notable: Beto to visit Colorado area. Booked before shooting.

Beto gets "emotional" School Shooting Question" Days before his fundraiser in Englewood Colorado, 1/2 hour away from school shooting.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/05/06/student-cries-during-school-shooting-question-mh-orig.cnn

https://map.betoorourke.com/?source=ema20190328

https://www.kktv.com/content/news/BREAKING-CO-School-Shooting–509599871.html

Notable: Strzok texts point finger at CIA leaking.

Newly Revealed Strzok Text Suggests CIA May Have Been ‘Leaking Like Mad’

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/newly-revealed-strzok-text-suggests-cia-may-have-been-leaking-mad

Notable: Snowden to deliver keynote address at Halifax university event.

Snowden to deliver keynote address at Halifax university event

https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2019/05/07/whistleblower-edward-snowden-to-deliver-keynote-address-at-halifax-university-event.html

Notable: Q post re: NK food aid.

>>6439674

sorry if repost for Q #2681

Notable: Pompeo meets Iraq PM in Baghdad.

Pompeo meets Iraq PM in Baghdad: Iraq government source

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad late on Tuesday, an Iraqi government source said.

The visit to Iraq came after Pompeo canceled a planned visit to Berlin and as the administration of President Donald Trump ramps up pressure in the Middle East on Iran.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-pompeo/pompeo-meets-iraq-pm-in-baghdad-iraq-government-source-idUSKCN1SD2I1?il=0

Notable: Twitter bans account that tracks and reports on epidemic of violence against Trump supporters.

TWITTER Bans Account that Tracks and Reports on Epidemic of Violence Against Trump Supporters

Since 2015 violent attacks against conservatives and Trump supporters have escalated to epidemic proportions.

The liberl media refuses to report on these frequent beatings. Instead the liberal media frequently reports on fake hate crimes to fool the American public.

There have been hundreds of attacks on Trump supporters the largest public beating was in San Jose, California where dozens of Trump supporters were bloodied and beaten on the street after the rally.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/twitter-is-now-banning-accounts-that-track-and-report-on-epidemic-of-violence-against-trump-supporters/

Notable: Video to be shown to Congress of Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher's helmet cam that will exonerate him. Congress campaign.

https://linkinprofile.com/better_business_babe

Locate ur local representative & speak out for this veteran & his family.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

This isn't Mr. Gallagher's battle, this IS Our Battle

We have a Duty and AN Obligation to Stand Up for what is right even if others have been brainwashed to think its wrong. We must Oppose Oppression, Expose Lies, and DEMAND Justice. Otherwise, this entire mission is a lost cause.

Are we United by the Blood that runs through our vains not by ethnicity, location, or race. It's up to all of us to help any person who has been wrongly persecuted by jackals in suits & titles masquerading as patriots.

I implore you to help support this family in any way

trail is tomorrow

Notable: >>6439787, >>6440044, >>6440022, >>6440100 Denver shooting update. Life flight inbound.

At Least Two Injured After Shots Fired at School in Colorado, Situation Unstable

Shots have been fired at a school in suburban Denver, Colorado, leaving at least two people injured, AP reports citing the Sheriff.

According to multiple media reports police took two suspects into custody, while currently engaging a third one.

At the same time, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said in Twitter that the authorities are still "identifying and locating shooter(s)."

https://sputniknews.com/us/201905071074797345-two-injured-colorado-school/

Notable: White House lifts sanctions on Venezuelan General who turned on Maduro.

White House Lifts Sanctions On Venezuelan General Who Turned On Maduro

Those who have bothered to read SOUTHCOM's comprehensive, multi-pronged plan to destabilize and ultimately topple Nicolas Maduro - a plan that, notably, ends with coalition troops on the ground - will recognize that two of the final steps involves enticing Venezuelan professionals to flee while encouraging military officials to give a coup d'etat one more try.

That appears to be what the US had in mind on Tuesday when it lifted sanctions on a Venezuelan general who broke ranks with the regime following a week of largely unsuccessful street demonstrations.

And in a speech in Washington on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence is expected to announce the removal of all sanctions on Gen. Manuel Cristopher Figuera, a general who warned 25 supreme court magistrates that they would be "held accountable" unless they backed opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to WSJ.

During the speech, Pence is expected to denounce Venezuela's courts as a tool of corruption, and dangle sanctions relief in front of any other senior military or government officials willing to turn on Maduro.

In a speech later today Washington, Vice President Mike Pence will say Venezuela’s supreme court has "become a political tool for a regime that usurps democracy, indicts political prisoners, and promotes authoritarianism."

"It’s time for this body to return to its founding purpose," Mr. Pence will say, according to prepared remarks. "If the Supreme Court of Venezuela does not return to its constitutional mandate to uphold the rule of law, the United States will hold all 25 of its magistrates accountable for their actions."

Mr. Pence will highlight the removal, effective immediately, of all sanctions on Venezuelan Gen. Manuel Cristopher Figuera, the director the country’s intelligence service, Sebin, who is no longer supporting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Gen. Figuera issued a statement last week announcing his break with Mr. Maduro.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-07/white-house-lifts-sanctions-venezuelan-general-who-turned-maduro

Notable: >>6439463, >>6439158 Unconfirmed reports of Iran positioning military assets to attack US positions.

https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/status/1125857522995408897

Notable: >>6439567, >>6439573 Shots fired at STEM school in Denver.

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1125857294623879171

Notable: Marketfag update.

US Market Report

() and bold are additions

DOW

Volume 326,645,712

Avg. Volume 293,732,950

NAS(this is closer but still under-plenty of firepower propping this sucker today)

Volume 2,012,753,274

Avg. Volume 2,198,614,918

SP500

Volume 2,242,424,092

Avg. Volume 3,576,667,213

(this has been anemic for the entire year-think it has only come close once)

So it does not not matter- up, down or sideway's the volumes are simply not there.

Traders Bet Worst-To-Come As Trade Turmoil Sparks Huge Deleveraging

(bit sanguine as it basically came back from being 600 points down)

A small bounce in China did nothing to lipstick that pig.

European stocks were ugly as various data and forecasts disappointed.

And then there was 'Murica! Futures dumped right after the bell on Lighthizer confirmation of increased tariffs, then spiked during the EU session on headlines that China VP Liu would make it to DC, but that didn't last long as yet another dead-cat-bounce died… The machines went panic-bid into the close

see the black line's on cap#2

Today was The Dow, S&P and Nasdaq's biggest daily point loss since 2018

While the S&P held above its 50DMA, Dow broke and closed below its 50DMA - the first close below it since Jan 15th.

This will most likely last a few day's as this is the system throwing a hissy fit regarding the tariffs and since they basically own most of it anyway they will not fuck themselves for very long-see here

Stock buybacks among S&P 500 companies mark a record streak

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-buybacks-among-sp-500-companies-mark-a-record-streak-2019-03-25

continued

Treasury yields tumbled intraday.

With 10Y Yields back at their lowest since April 1st

see cap #3

And the yield curve flattened… with 3m10Y spread back near inverted.

The market's expectations for rate-moves this year shifted dovishly today as stocks fell - dropping to a 30bps rate cut.

PMs were higher, crude and copper lower on the day.

Demand for protection against more losses over the next month is higher than at any time during the fourth-quarter rout that almost ended the bull market, going by relative levels of implied volatility on S&P 500 options. The derived price for one-month puts that pay off if the S&P 500 falls 10 percent below its current level has soared compared to the cost for calls that would pay out if the benchmark gauge rose 5 percent in that time.

See Credit default Swaps

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-07/trade-turmoil-truth-sparks-huge-deleveraging-negative-gamma-strikes

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?countrycode=bx

System is trying to lay blame at POTUS' feet- he was right to call China out wit the tariff's as munchkins was not getting a thing done.

We will see how the Chinese visit transpires starting on thursday, however the system cannot take moar than 3 day's of "down otherwise they will margin call each other and that will produce even moar selling- in short they are fucked.

Notable: POTUS backs food aid for N. Korea.

Q proof

NK aide

https://twitter.com/YonhapNews/status/1125856468417179648

Notable: House Dems threaten to withhold salaries.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1125856056381329408

Notable: >>6439381 The Dow is down 472 points.

FrontHoleNews:

The Dow is having its worst day since January 3. The index is down nearly 600 points, falling below 26,000 points.

CST

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1125849692863119361

Notable: “Case Closed!” Mitch McConnell slams unhinged Democrats using Mueller report to attack President Trump, Bill Barr (video)

“Case Closed!” Mitch McConnell Slams Unhinged Democrats Using Mueller Report to Attack President Trump, Bill Barr (VIDEO)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday slammed unhinged Democrats using Mueller’s report to attack President Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr.

McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, defended Trump from rabid Democrats using Mueller’s report to smear and attack the President and said, “case closed!”

“What we’ve seen is a melt down — an absolute melt down! An inability to accept the bottom line conclusion on Russian interference from the special counsel’s report which said, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” McConnell said speaking about the Democrats and their media sycophants.

McConnell accused Dems and “TV talking heads” of peddling Russian collusion conspiracy theories.

“The special counsel’s finding is clear — case closed! Case closed,” McConnell said.

McConnell accused Democrats of publicly working through the 5 stages of grief (TDS) — “First stage is denial,” he said.

“Totally baseless speculation that perhaps Attorney General Barr hadn’t quoted the report properly,” McConnell added.

McConnell said the Democrats are “angry that the legal system won’t magically undo the 2016 election for them and they’ve opted to channel all of their partisan anger onto the attorney general.”

Fake Indian and 2020 Dem hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called for impeachment proceedings against President Trump from the Senate floor.

The Massachusetts Senator cited Mueller’s report and argued the information provided by the special counsel “clearly constitutes adequate information to begin an impeachment proceeding in the House of Representatives.”

McConnell, who refers to himself as the “grim reaper” and vowed to stop the left’s Socialist agenda, will not move forward with impeachment so the Democrats are just screaming at the sky.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/case-closed-mitch-mcconnell-slams-unhinged-democrats-using-mueller-report-to-attack-president-trump-bill-barr-video/

Notable: American ISIS member issues warning.

American ISIS Member Issues Warning: “We’re in Texas, Ohio, New York City, Washington, D.C.”

“What do I think is coming? Many things. There will be many, many attacks. Like I said, we are ready for the battle over the Capitol.”

“We are pretty strong. Yes, yes. In every state like I said. We’re in Texas. We’re in Ohio. We’re in New York City. We’re in Washington, DC. We’re in every single state you can name, just about.”

In the interview, Cornell also admitted that had he not been arrested by the FBI he would have carried out his plan to attack the US Capitol and Israeli Embassy with pipe bombs and firearms.

https://trump-train.com/2019/05/07/american-isis-member-issues-warning-were-in-texas-ohio-new-york-city-washington-d-c/

Notable: Keith Raniere NXIVM trial update.

Keith Raniere NXIVM Trial Update Morning Session of Day #1 Has Some Surprises

The large crowd of people seeking to attend the trial caused a brief delay at the outset of this morning’s session. But things finally got underway around 10:00 AM – with Judge Garaufis reviewing the procedures and rules that will be followed throughout the trial.

Judge Garaufis then made the following announcements:

– Court will be in session from 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM each day, Monday through Thursday – with some Friday sessions as needed; – There will be 1-hour lunch breaks – and a few short breaks during the morning and afternoon sessions as needed; – The trial is expected to last about 6 weeks; – Sketch artists will only be allowed to do drawings of the witnesses that the court designates.

Next, came the prosecution’s opening statement – which was delivered by Tanya Hajjar rather than Moira Kim Penza. During the course of her 45-minute presentation, Hajjar outlined some of the things the prosecution would prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” during the course of the trial.

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These included the following:

– That although Raniere claimed to be a spiritual leader, he was really nothing more than a con-man; – That Raniere targeted young women – and groomed them for sex; – That Raniere pretended to be a guru but was actually a criminal; – That Raniere had sexual relationships with all three daughters of a Mexican family that was involved with NXIVM (Note: In keeping with the rules established by Judge Garaufis, Frank Report will only refer to victims and witnesses by their first names); – That one of the Mexican daughters, Danielle, was confined to a room for 23 months – during which time she wrote hundreds of letters to Raniere; – That another of the Mexican daughters, Camila, was only 15 years old when Raniere started having sex with her; – That Raniere took numerous naked pictures of Camila when she was 15 years old – which constitutes child pornography; – That Raniere indicated that the collateral he demanded from all the members of DOS should be “Something so distasteful that you would rather die than break your vows of obedience and servitude”; – That another victim by the name of Nicole was blindfolded and taken to a shed by Raniere – where Camilla performed oral sex on her per Raniere’s instructions; – That Raniere kept tabs on people he considered to be his enemies, had criminal complaints filed against some of them, and litigated others into silence; – That Raniere operated as a crime boss; – That the jury would hear testimony from several of Raniere’s victims – including Danielle and Nicole; and – That the jury would also hear testimony from several of Raniere’s former co-defendants. Next up was Marc Agnifilo who, as expected, presented the defense’s opening statement.

Agnifilo began by telling the members of the jury that they would be hearing a lot of jargon, labels, and slogans over the course of the trial – and that they should ignore all of them. He then informed them that the trial would come down to one question: Did Keith Raniere have the intent to commit any of the crimes that he’s been charged with committing? During the course of his lengthy presentation, Agnifilo also told the jury: – That they needed to consider all the evidence through Keith’s eyes; – That they would hear testimony from several former members who believe that NXIVM was “wonderful” and “like Camelot”; – That 17,000 people took NXIVM courses – and the vast majority of them got something good out of it; – That the women in DOS all voluntarily chose to be part of that group – and that they did so because they wanted to be more in control of their lives; – That the jurors would have to take into consideration how much each person is responsible for their choices in life; – That the many pictures of naked women they would see were nor sexual in nature but rather a demonstration of some women’s willingness to be vulnerable; – That none of the DOS collateral was ever released; – That Raniere wanted women to have their own secret society in the same way that men had secret societies; – That Danielle was a thief who stole thousands of dollars from NXIVM; – That Danielle was never really forced to stay in one room – and that she could have left the family home in which she was staying at any time; – That in becoming romantically involved with another man, Danielle had broken an agreement she had entered into with Keith; – That although some women were given assignments to seduce Raniere that did not mean they had to have sex with him; – That Mark Vicente led a revolt against Keith Raniere – and caused many defections within the ranks of NXIVM; and – That Keith Raniere is a “good and gentle man” whose only goal in life is to help others reach their full potential.

https://frankreport.com/2019/05/07/morning-session-of-day-1-has-some-surprises/

Notable: Israel's hand in Pentagon's cloud computing contract with Microsoft?

Why is Israel taking over cloud computing for the Pentagon?

ISRAEL TAKES OVER CLOUD COMPUTING FOR THE PENTAGON

Microsoft, Amazon are the last bidders standing for the $10 billion DoD JEDI cloud contract

The Pentagon is expected to award its $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to either Amazon or Microsoft sometime later this summer, at the earliest.

U.S. Department of Defense officials have decided this week that the only two cloud vendors able to meet their requirements for a huge, winner-take-all project are Amazon and Microsoft. That decision takes Oracle and IBM out of the running for the $10 billion JEDI contract.

The DoD’s JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract is designed to upgrade legacy systems with newer cloud services. According to the original proposal, “JEDI Cloud will provide enterprise-level, commercial IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) to the Department and any mission partners for all Department business and mission operations.”

Google dropped out of the JEDI bidding last year, acknowledging it couldn’t meet the requirements (and citing its AI principles, as well). Oracle officials had protested the bidding process, claiming bias against a former military employee who also worked at Amazon AWS. Oracle filed a lawsuit over this late last year. In February his year, it looked like the DoD was going to have to postpone the award of the contract as a result of a required review.

Microsoft in Israel.

Bill Gates: Israeli tech ‘changing the world’

Execs from Facebook, Google, and Microsoft explain why they use Israel for their R&D

Unit 8200 in New York.

Veterans of Israeli Army’s Elite Code-breaking Unit Are New York’s Best-kept Secret

What can we say except other than what George says: “Oh my….”

If you criticize Israel or Jews or publicly begin discussing any of what this post contains, you will be taken down for being “Anti-Semitic”, the “Christian” Mike Pompeo (Ziocon-Christians like Pence and Pompeo are slaves to Israel and Jews as instructed by the Chabad Lubavitchers) will make certain of this.

Pompeo: America to “Push Back” Against “Anti-Semitism” Worldwide

Why? Why indeed. Ray McGovern has a fairly good idea.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-amazon-are-the-last-bidders-standing-for-the-10-billion-dod-jedi-cloud-contract/

https://www.abeldanger.org/israel-takes-over-cloud-computing-for-the-pentagon/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-gates-israeli-tech-changing-the-world/

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-google-microsoft-israel-rd-2016-10?r=US&IR=T

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Notable: Pompeo reportedly in Baghdad.

https://twitter.com/nabihbulos/status/1125844140909056000

Notable: Monsanto argues Roundup cancer victim should receive less money because of imminent death.

Monsanto Argues Roundup Cancer Victim Should Receive Less Money Because of Imminent Death

August 10, 2018, a jury found Monsanto (now owned by Bayer AG1,2) had “acted with malice or oppression” and was responsible for “negligent failure” by not warning consumers about the carcinogenicity of its weed killer, Roundup.3,4 The plaintiff in this historic case was 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson, who is dying from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Johnson sprayed about 150 gallons of Roundup 20 to 40 times per year while working as a groundskeeper for the Benicia Unified School District in California, from 2012 through late 2015.5 His lawsuit, filed in 2016 after he became too ill to work, accused Monsanto of hiding the health hazards of Roundup.

The jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to Johnson, $33 million of which was noneconomic damages for pain and suffering. In October, the judge upheld the guilty verdict but reduced the total award to $78 million.6,7,8

Monsanto/Bayer Wants Damages Reduced on Grounds That Plaintiff Is Near Death

As expected, Bayer/Monsanto appealed. What’s shocking is the company’s argument for significantly reducing the damage amount further. In its appellate brief,9 the company asks for reversal of the damages awarded based on the fact that Johnson is near death. On page 87, the appeal states:10

“A jury may award future noneconomic damages only for pain and suffering that a plaintiff is reasonably certain to experience based on his ‘projected life span at the time of trial’ …

[‘[D]amages for future pain and suffering are based upon plaintiff’s probable life expectancy in his or her injured condition … [C]ompensation for pain and suffering is recompense for pain and suffering actually experienced, and to the extent that premature death terminates the pain and suffering, compensation should be terminated’] …

An award is excessive if it ‘suggest[s] the jury was influenced by improper considerations’ … At closing argument, Plaintiff’s counsel ignored these principles. He implored the jury to award $1 million per year for both past and future noneconomic damages, and asserted that Plaintiff ‘will live between two more to 33 years.’

In so doing, Plaintiff’s counsel urged the jury to disregard the evidence presented through his medical expert, Dr. Nabhan, that Plaintiff would not live past December 2019, or roughly one and a half years after trial …

He then asked for $33 million in future noneconomic damages: ‘[I]f he lives for only two years, then the remaining years that he doesn’t get to live is also a million dollars. So it doesn’t matter if he dies in two years or dies in 20 … [H]e deserves that money’ … [asking jury to award $33 million in future noneconomic damages based on Plaintiff’s ‘potential life expectancy over the years he won’t live’ … ]).

And the jury awarded Plaintiff exactly what his lawyer requested: $33 million in future noneconomic damages … The court posed two questions for the parties to address at argument:

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/05/07/big-industry-wants-roundup-victim-to-receive-less-money.aspx

Notable: UK Govt concedes country will take part in EU elections near three years after Brexit vote.

UK Govt Concedes Country Will Take Part in EU Elections Near Three Years After Brexit Vote

LONDON (AP) – The British government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that the country will definitely take part in the European Parliament elections this month because there’s no chance that a Brexit deal can be approved in time to avoid them.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government had been desperate to avoid U.K. participation in polls for U.K. seats in the 751-seat European Union legislature. The vote in Britain on May 23 is being held almost three years after U.K. voters chose to leave the EU

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/07/uk-govt-concedes-country-will-take-part-in-eu-elections-near-three-years-after-brexit-vote/

Notable: Powerful explosions heard in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Yanbu'

Powerful explosions heard in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Yanbu': Local sources

A number of powerful explosions have been heard in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Yanbu', local sources said Monday, with reports falling short of giving any reason for the blasts or possible casualties.

No further details have been made available up to this moment and no group or individual has assumed responsibility for the blasts.

Yanbu' is an important petroleum shipping terminal for Saudi Arabia and home to three oil refineries, a plastics facility and several other petrochemical plants.

The second largest Saudi city along the Red Sea coast, Yanbu is also the second port, after Jeddah, and serves as the main port for the holy city of Medina.

Some social media activists claim the port city has been struck by rockets.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/06/595262/Saudi-Arabia-Yanbu

Notable: All of the remaining hostages in southern France have been released.

requested repost from last bread:

BREAKING: All of the remaining hostages in southern France have been released

CST

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1125839444064518146

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/05/man-holding-hostages-at-store-near-toulouse/

Notable: ‘Political correctness’ drives global persecution & ‘genocide’ of Christians.

‘Political correctness’ drives global persecution & ‘genocide’ of Christians – UK

Christians are the most persecuted of any religious group and face near-genocidal levels of oppression in some parts of the world, says a report commissioned by the UK Foreign Office.

Prepared by Reverend Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro and an Anglican missionary, the report estimated that one in three people worldwide experience some form of religious oppression, finding Christians are the most widely targeted group.

“Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity,” said the report, adding that “in some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/458337-persecution-christians-political-correctness/

Notable: Angela Merkel defends disastrous migrant policy

Angela Merkel defends disastrous migrant policy, says it was never a mistake to let in millions of migrants

Four years since launching her dubious open-door migrant policy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was again forced to defend it as she addressed her supporters in Brandenburg, Sputnik News reports.

Merkel said her migrant policy had been Germany’s response to the exceptional situation generated by civil war in Syria and the rampant ISIS terror threat in the Middle East.

The embattled Chancellor insisted it was never a mistake to take in people, but rather mistakes had been made earlier, by European countries failing to address the refugee crises in such volatile states as Lebanon or Jordan, adding: “That’s why our lesson is: provide local help”.

The country’s refugee policy has long been a source of discord, both within Germany and among many of her EU partners.

Last year, protesters opposed to Angela Merkel’s refugee policy took to the streets in a number of cities, prompted by acts of violence, including gang rape and murder, allegedly perpetrated by migrants.

Although many Germans had initially showed support for their chancellor’s open-door migrant policy, when faced by an overwhelming influx, clashes in refugee centres, and a backlog of registrations, dissent among the ranks of Angela Merkel’s government eventually sparked a major political backlash that left Angela Merkel reeling.

The chancellor’s popularity ratings took a unusual hit, she proceeded to flop in polls during the 2017 elections and struggled to assemble a coalition government.

Merkel finally quit as leader of her Christian Democratic Party, announcing she would stand down as chancellor at the next election.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/angela-merkel-defends-disastrous-migrant-policy-says-it-was-never-a-mistake-to-let-in-millions-of-migrants/

Notable: Yellow Vest FF?

yes, FF indeed?

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1125835456581599232

Notable: >>6438838 CNN layoffs employees with separation packages.

Over 100 CNN Employees Take Voluntary Buyouts - Just Don't Call It A Layoff

CNN admitted that around 100 employees accepted voluntary buyout offers amid a company-wide restructuring by parent company AT&T, according to Deadline, which added that according to a spokesperson "the exits are purely related to the buyouts and do not involve any layoffs, contrary to a press report earlier on Monday.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-07/over-100-cnn-employees-take-voluntary-buyouts-leave-just-dont-call-it-layoff

Notable: ‘Portuguese pilot’ shot down in Mirage jet by General Haftar’s forces in Libya.

‘Portuguese pilot’ shot down in Mirage jet by General Haftar’s forces in Libya – reports

The pilot of a fighter jet shot down south of Tripoli by the Libyan National Army is allegedly a Portuguese fighting in Libya as a “mercenary,” Haftar’s forces claim, as photos of the captured pilot covered in blood emerge online.

Photos posted on social media show a bloodied man in military-style clothes without any distinctive badges surrounded by forces said to be loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army (LNA).

Citing Haftar’s forces that sent her the photos, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent Bel Trew said the man was a “foreign national” from Portugal. While Trew chose to crop out the man’s face, plenty of uncensored photos have emerged elsewhere from the same scene.

https://www.rt.com/news/458571-libya-downed-pilot-portugal/

Reminder: Haftar is a mossad asset

Notable: >>6438497, >>6438502 Popular Christian author dead at 37 from the flu. Obama diplomat suffers the same fate.

Woman dead at 37 from "the flu"… HRC and C Clinton are commenting on Twatter?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/04/us/rachel-held-evans-dead/index.html

Notable: More work to be done with stifling regulations?

'Swamp' thwarts Trump with $1.9T ‘hidden tax’ in regulations

President Trump’s administration cut by almost two-thirds the average number of regulations issued for every law passed, but still the “hidden tax” imposed by the unelected bureaucracy was nearly $2 trillion, according to a new analysis. The Competitiveness Enterprise Institute said that the $1.9 trillion in regulation translated into a “burden” of $14,600 on every household, an amount so high that if the costs were a country, it would the ninth largest, just ahead of Canada. The huge number and choking impact on the nation shows just how big a battle Trump’s anti-regulation war faces. During the 2016 campaign and while in office he has railed against the Washington "swamp" that includes unelected federal regulators entrenched in the bureaucracy.

Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., author of the just-released Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, found that Trump has made good on his promise to cut regulations. He noted, for example, that Trump’s government cut the average number of regulations imposed for every new piece of legislation. The average is 27 rules, but the Trump administration cut that to 11 in 2018. Trump also reduced the regulations-filled pages of the Federal Register to a near low. What’s more, the Trump administration “withdrew or delayed” 1,579 Obama rules that were in the pipeline. And, he noted, the Office of Management and Budget reported that agencies cut $33 billion in the “regulatory budget,” and it anticipates additional savings in fiscal year 2019 of another $18 billion.

Still, the costs of existing regulations are enormous, said Crews, vice president for policy and a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Despite the progress made on regulatory reform under President Trump, American consumers and businesses are still on the hook for the ‘hidden tax’ of federal regulation,” said Crews. “And that progress is further threatened by President Trump’s own regulatory impulses on issues ranging from antitrust enforcement to trade restrictions to food and drug matters, and more,” he added.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/swamp-thwarts-trump-with-1-9-trillion-hidden-tax-in-regulations

Ten Thousand Commandments 2019

https://www.scribd.com/document/409009519/Ten-Thousand-Commandments-2019#from_embed

Notable: Obama official withdraws from commencement speech after student complaints

Obama official withdraws from commencement speech after student complaints

Following a wave of student and faculty protests, a former Obama administration Cabinet official has withdrawn as the commencement speaker for a university graduation ceremony later this month. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson officially withdrew as the commencement speaker for the University of Southern California Gould School of Law following complaints from students and faculty over the Obama administration’s treatment of illegal immigrants during his tenure as secretary (December 2013 through the end of Obama's administration).

USC Gould School of Law Dean Andrew Guzman announced Johnson’s decision in an email to the school late last week, citing his desire for the ceremony to be free of “tension and political controversy,” after Guzman informed him that a number of students and faculty took issue with the way he handled the immigration crisis.

The controversy over Johnson’s selection first came to light after two Latino professors at the school, Daria Roithmayr and David Cruz, penned a letter to the dean complaining about his choice of speaker, claiming that Johnson went as far as to “normalize state violence.” “USC’s choice to invite Secretary Johnson to speak normalizes illegal state violence. Inviting him to speak to the graduating class legitimates what federal courts and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have recognized as a fundamental betrayal of core values,” wrote Roithmayr and Cruz. “Johnson has repeatedly failed to respect legal and moral limits on the use of government-sponsored coercive force, particularly against children, and has demonstrated a morally repugnant willingness to use those who are most vulnerable among us as means to an end.”

Last month, in an interview with National Public Radio, Johnson admitted that the Obama administration had taken steps to expand family detention of illegal immigrant families following the surge of illegal immigrants coming across the border from Central America in 2014. “We expanded family detention. You’re correct. When I was in office, I was surprised to learn that of 34,000 beds, we only had 95 detention beds for families,” said Johnson. “So we expanded that, and anecdotally we saw that families were surprised that we had done that and were calling back home to Central America to say that they were being detained.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/obama-official-withdraws-from-commencement-speech-after-student-complaints

Notable: Iraq close to signing $53 billion deal with Exxon, PetroChina; denies Iran link

Iraq close to signing $53 billion deal with Exxon, PetroChina; denies Iran link

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is close to signing a $53 billion, 30-year energy agreement with Exxon Mobil and PetroChina, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday, denying any link between the mega-project and U.S. permission for Iraq to do business with Iran.

Iraq expects to make $400 billion over the 30 years the deal will be in effect, the prime minister said.

The southern mega-project involves the development of the Nahr Bin Umar and Artawi oilfields and raising production from the two fields to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) from around 125,000 bpd now, Abdul Mahdi said.

The project is crucial to supplying water to oilfields in the south in order to boost pressure and keep production steady.

Media reports had quoted Iran’s ambassador in London on Monday saying the United States would grant waivers to Iraq allowing it to deal with Iran economically, in exchange for Baghdad signing an oil deal with Washington.

“Talks now between the oil ministry and Exxon Mobil and PetroChina are focused on how to split profits if oil prices rise or decline,” Abdul Mahdi said in response to a Reuters question on the obstacles holding up a final agreement.

“The deal lasts for 30 years and such financial details are sensitive and should be given more discussions,” he added.

Iraq is the second largest oil exporter in OPEC and has long-term aims to boost output curtailed by decades of war and sanctions. Such projects are among the most valuable prizes in the world for international oil companies. An initial agreement would be a big boost for Exxon Mobil’s plans to expand in Iraq.

It is also one of the only countries in the world to have friendly relations with both the United States and Iran. Tehran and Washington, arch enemies elsewhere, are Baghdad’s main allies and vye for influence there.

Exxon Mobil and PetroChina will build a water injection project to feed oil wells in the south, as well as rehabilitate and build new export pipelines, Abdul Mahdi said.

The project also aims to process 100 million standard cubic feet of natural gas per day from the Artawi and Nahr Bin Umar fields.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-oil-exxon-mobil-iran/iraq-close-to-signing-53-billion-deal-with-exxon-petrochina-denies-iran-link-idUSKCN1SD1J1

Notable: Update on Keith Raniere Trial

Update on Keith Reniere Trial

The crowd lined up outside the courthouse was huge – and started gathering several hours before the building opened for business. Even those arriving early had to stand in line for 15 minutes just to get through security. The crowd was a mix of old and young – with slightly more women than men. And, as expected, there were media representatives from all over the world. The courtroom will be full – as will the overflow room that has been set up in Room 6G-North.

The jury ranges in age from the late-20s to the mid-60s – with more older than younger members. Three of the four female members are Caucasian – whereas most of the eight male members are minorities.

The Trial Has Started

Judge Nicholas Garaufis is presiding over the trial.

https://frankreport.com/2019/05/07/the-trial-has-started-check-back-for-updates/

Notable: Ten, including Pharmacy Owners, Pharmacist, and Nurse Practitioner, Charged in Over $200 Million Prescription Drug Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/ten-including-pharmacy-owners-pharmacist-and-nurse-practitioner-charged-over-200

https://twitter.com/OIGatHHS/status/1125816340953083905

Notable: Fifth person implicated in NJ cash-for-votes scheme

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1125812440380465152

Fifth person implicated in NJ cash-for-votes scheme